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Jurors in the trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Tuesday saw photographs of a blood-stained, hand-scrawled note speckled with bullet holes inside the boat he was captured in days after the deadly 2013 attack.
Prosecutors consider the...

WASHINGTON A North Carolina blogger who became a major propagandist for al-Qaida before he was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Yemen was a subject of close FBI surveillance for years and a much bigger concern for U.S. authorities than previously known,...

Any day above ground is a good one. Or is it?
People are living much longer than they did a century ago, but in many cases this comes despite terrible lifestyles; it's medical advancements that increase longevity for those disinclined to help...

The calendar says the final weeks of winter are still a month away, which makes the idea of running a marathon some pretty impressive forward thinking.
But organizers of the 2015 Naperville race, recently renamed the "Heathy Driven Naperville Marathon"...

French, Belgian among 5 killed in attack on restaurant popular with foreigners in Mali capital
A masked gunman sprayed bullets in a restaurant popular with foreigners in Mali's capital early Saturday, killing five people including a French person and a...

NEWPORT NEWS — When more than 1,900 runners come barreling down the streets of Newport News next Sunday for the inaugural One City Marathon, they'll be traversing through some of city's most mature neighborhoods and diverse commerce districts...

With Dzhokhar Tsarnaev seated at the defense table no more than 15 feet away Thursday, the father of an 8-year-old boy killed in the Boston Marathon bombing described the moment when he looked down at his son's pale, torn body and realized he wouldn't...

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The father of an 8-year-old boy killed in the Boston Marathon bombing says the color of his son's skin told him there was no chance for survival.
Bill Richard is the father of Martin Richard, the youngest of three people who died that day....

A woman who lost a leg in the Boston Marathon bombing described feeling as if she were in a horror movie: wounded people all around her, including someone covered with soot, dazed and "walking around like a zombie."
At the federal death penalty trial...

US won't bring federal charges in Ferguson shooting, but strongly criticizes police force
The Justice Department cleared a white former Ferguson, Missouri, police officer in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black 18-year-old on Wednesday, but also issued...

The question, for all practical purposes, is no longer whether Dzhokhar Tsarnaev took part in the Boston Marathon bombing. It's whether he deserves to die for it.
In a blunt opening statement at the nation's biggest terrorism trial in nearly 20 years,...